SEV Biblia, Chapter 19:13
¶ Dolor es para su padre el hijo loco; y gotera continua las contiendas de la mujer.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Proverbs 19:13
Verse 13. The contentions of a wife are a continual dropping. - The man who has got such a wife is like a tenant who has got a cottage with a bad roof through every part of which the rain either drops or pours. He can neither sit, stand work, nor sleep, without being exposed to these droppings. God help the man who is in such a case, with house or wife!
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 13. A foolish son [is] the calamity of his father , etc.] Or, “the calamities of his father” f546 ; he brings them to him. A very great affliction he is, and which has many distresses and sorrows in it; as loss of reputation and credit in his family, which is sunk by his behaviour, instead of being supported and increased; loss of substance, through extravagance and riotous living, and the ruin of his soul and body by his wicked practices; (see Proverbs 10:1); and the contentions of a wife [are] a continual dropping ; or like the dropping of rain, in a rainy day, into a house out of repair, and which is very uncomfortable to, the inhabitants of it; (see Proverbs 27:15). Such are the contentions of a peevish, ill natured, and brawling wife, who is always scolding; and which is a continual vexation to a man, and renders him very uneasy in life: such a continual dropping was Xantippe to Socrates, who teased him night and day with her brawls and contentions f547 . A great unhappiness each of these must be!
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 13 - It shows the vanity of the world, that we are liable to the greates griefs where we promise ourselves the greatest comfort.
Original Hebrew
הות 1942 לאביו 1 בן 1121 כסיל 3684 ודלף 1812 טרד 2956 מדיני 4079 אשׁה׃ 802
